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C. Question: What qualities, in your team leaders, did you appreciate most that 

 helped you and others accomplish their work What criteria should be used in selecting 

 team leaders and team members? 



Answers: 

 Technical competence in the subject matter and glutton for hard work. 

 Technical competence in the subject matter and glutton for hard work. 



D Question: What helped you and what hindered you, in terms of accomplishing 

 Assessment work along with your regular duties'' 



Answers: 

 Helped: scheduling a number of SAA meetings in the same general location one following 

 another 

 Hindered: assessment work was seen as an addition to regular work 



E Question: Was funding of Assessment activities an issue? How should the budget 



and funding be handled in future assessments'' 



Answers: Funding is always an issue. Had the Forest Service not received a 

 budget windfall for ecosystem management which could be utilized for the assessment, the 

 SAA would never have taken place Other agencies did not have similar funding cushion 

 to utilize for the SAA Funding of private citizens to work on the assessment is also a 

 problem Specifically, public input is important, but many private citizens are not free to 

 attend daytime meetings or able to travel long distances Our technical input was made 

 possible by coalition funds This implies that partnerships may be needed with 

 organizations which do not have the funding to participate but do have valuable 

 knowledge or insight to contribute. 



F Question: How do you think that communications could have been improved 

 among the various teams? 



Answer: Hold more meetings that involved more than one team. There should 

 have been a more definitive list of team members early in the study so team members 

 could talk to one another informally. 



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G Question: What is the most helpful thing you learned about how to make working 

 with people from various agencies easier and more efficient? If you were responsible for 



